Journalism Research Articles

The Role of New Media in the Public Cognition: Take the Weibo Platform as an Example

With the rapid development of new media, especially the rise of Weibo platforms, its influence on public cognition has become more and more significant. Taking the Weibo platform as an example, this paper deeply discusses the role of new media in public cognition. First of all, by introducing the basic characteristics and functions of the Weibo platform, it also expounds its unique advantages in information transmission. Secondly, the paper analyzes the satisfaction degree of the Weibo platform's demand for obtaining knowledge and information, including information diversity, convenience, and interactivity. However, there are also some problems with the role of new media in public cognition, such as rumor dissemination, information overload, and information distortion. This paper presents solutions and suggestions for these problems. The government and relevant departments should strengthen information monitoring and screening, and reduce the spread of rumors by providing reliable information sources. New media platforms need to take effective measures to improve the credibility of information, such as establishing clear norms and mechanisms for news publication and strengthening the verification of news authenticity. It is also crucial for Weibo platforms to provide valuable and influential content. Platforms should encourage the production and dissemination of quality content while reducing the interference of spam and low-quality content. Finally, improving the public's media literacy is also the key. Through education and training, strengthen the public's ability to judge and distinguish between media information, in order to better cope with information overload and information distortion.

News Recommendation Systems: Impediments and Future Prospects

News publishers have reduced their usage of traditional newspapers in favour of digital various options such as webpages and specially constructed cell phone applications. In the present world, the internet has recreated information borders and, in addition to smartphone internet access, makes it the most vital medium content for everyone on earth. Users want personalized news recommendations in order to locate relevant news content and avoid information overload. With the growing number of media reports available on social media, tailored news suggestions have become more vital in assisting end users inside discovering relevant and engaging news stories. Traditional recommender systems, on the other hand, frequently fail to account for the constantly changing nature the users' preferences in addition to shifting patterns in news items. To solve this issue, this study offers a context-aware customized data system of recommendations that utilizes contextual information to improve news suggestion individualism. The method entails gathering, extracting, investigating, scrubbing, and arranging a big dataset from 22,657 English publications from 19 individual news outlets online. Four separate recommender frameworks were thought up using different methodologies, including content-based strategies like the TF-IDF Bag-of-Words, and Word2Vec, as well as a related not entirely set in stone by click demeanours. Since it’s been thoroughly explored over decades with noteworthy progress in enhancing user interaction, there encore many concerns and obstacles waiting to be researched further.

Par dažu bezpriedēkļa un priedēkļa verbu lietojumu ar adverbiem un prievārdu pār

In Latvian language, prefix and prefix-free verb constructions with prepositions and adverbs are used in parallel, where the prefix, adverb and preposition are close in terms of the meaning. The aim of the research is to study the connection of prefix-free and prefix verbs with prepositions and adverbs, to study the use of these constructions, reciprocal attitudes and semantics. The novelty of the research is indicated by the fact that extensive systematic studies have not been conducted on the connection between prefixed and prefix-free verb and preposition and/or adverb, their semantics, as well as the possible motivation for doubling the preposition and adverb. The article examines constructions with prepositions uz, no, caur, pār, expressing spatial direction attitudes and which, in modern Latvian, have prefixes corresponding in the meaning – uz-, no-, pār-, as well as adverbs: virsū, ārā, cauri, pāri, nost. The source of the examples analysed in the study is written language on the Internet – chatting, i.e. microblogging site „Twitter”, news publications, comments on the Internet, „Web Corpus of Latvian Language” (Tīmeklis2020) and other sources where coverage of spoken language is available. It has been observed that in cases when a prefix, adverb and preposition of close meaning are used in the same sentence, it is easier to visualize what is being said as if it is being „drawn” before the eyes, and such structures make the text more imaginative. The meaning of a verb plays an important role in what adverb or preposition it binds to itself. In the research, a tendency was observed that most of the time, in constructions of prefixed verb and prefix-free verb, preposition and adverb with verbs of motion of close meaning and of literal sense, are used.

International Association for the Study of Pain publications over the 50-year span.

The International Association for the Study of Pain (IASP) has a 50-year history of publishing educational and research materials, ranging from traditional print format books, journals, and other informational formats to online and electronic formats. Here we provide a historical overview of IASP publications and reflections from the perspective of 5 former or current Editors-in-Chief.

The evolution of epidemics and the publication of epidemic news in the local press: a study in the region of Braga (Northern Portugal)

The periods 1918–1920 and 2019–2021 were characterized by epidemic moments. The COVID-19 pandemic recalled the crises associated with the Spanish flu, exanthematic typhus, and smallpox of the 1920s. However, few works have focused on a comparative task of these episodes in local newspapers. Through the analysis of the daily editions of Commercio do Minho and its successor, Correio do Minho, we fill this gap with this work. It was possible to portray the socioeconomic reach of these pandemics in a community in the northern coastal region of Portugal. Using time series analysis of the number of news items as well as the number of deaths from each of the episodes in the periods 1918 and 1920 and 2020 and 2021 (namely using Autoregressive Distributed Lag models), we conclude that the COVID-19 pandemic exhibited a greater focus on the problem in the local press. Other results made it possible to view the differentiated response of the number of news items regarding each epidemic episode depending on the number of deaths in the population, both between 1918 and 1920 and between 2020 and 2021. Thus, our work came to demonstrate three pieces of evidence in the relationship between news and epidemic processes. Firstly, COVID-19, as an example of the most recent pandemic, brought a reactivity of the local press resulting in a greater number of news, even compared to the number of fatalities. Secondly, the number of news published on epidemic/pandemic issues tends to follow the evolution of the severity of the event—there is more news in the months that follow periods of greater severity of the disease. Finally, the “disappearance” of published news faster in 1918–1920 also reveals a lesser focus that newsrooms perceived on society of that time in the face of the reported pandemic (Nie et al. 2022).

Stock market reaction to news: Do tense and horizon matter?

Using textual data extracted from a large variety of news sources (news stories, call transcripts, broker research, etc.), we build a daily aggregate news signal that takes into account the tone and tense of various news statements about a given firm. We test the informational content of this signal and examine how news about events happening in different tenses or at different horizons is incorporated into stock prices. We document large and significant market reactions around news publication. News’ tense and horizon matter a lot. News about the future drives much larger reactions than those about the present or the past. Additionally, the market reaction to future news is mainly driven by near rather than distant future news.

Draft Dodger, Soldier’s Wife: Trans Feminine Lives, Civic Duty, and World War II


 
 
 
 This article examines trans feminine lived experiences in the United States during the Second World War amid persecution amplified by the Selective Training and Service Act of 1940, the May Act of 1941, and heightened visibility through local and national news publications. This article contends that there is a longer and more complicated linked history between trans feminine Americans and the U.S. military than has been acknowledged by both scholarship and public discourse. Federal statutes like the STSA and the May Act lent authority to the state and its auxiliaries beyond the singular municipal or county jurisdiction. These factors aided the legal persecution of innumerable Americans with perjury, draft evasion, ‘moral’, and fraud charges. Through case studies of the disparate circumstances surrounding the ‘discovery of sex’ of three individuals, Sadie Acosta, Lucy Hicks Anderson, and Georgia Black, this study illuminates the role of various actors involved in investigating and policing their ‘moral’ crimes and gender variance in the 1940s and 1950s. In the post-war years, the figure of the ‘ex-G.I.’ woman is seen through numerous well-publicized cases in the U.S. and the U.K., showing that trans feminine experiences of World War II could be found both at home and abroad.
 
 
 

MEASUREMENT OF MILITANCY NEWS COVERAGE IN THE NATIONAL DAILIES OF BANGLADESH

The purpose of this study is to measure the militancy news coverage in the national dailies of Bangladesh. Content analysis method is used to get information. The purposive sampling technique is used in this study where agenda setting theory is applied. A total of five national dailies are taken as samples in this study. Those are The Daily Prothom Alo, The Daily Star, The Daily Ittefaq, The Daily Kaler Kantho, and The Daily Janakantha. Publications from 1st January 2019 to 31st December 2019 of these five dailies are included in this study. All sorts of militancy-related news are counted here and analyzed using Microsoft Excel. This study unearths that five dailies publish about 1,62,000 pieces of news in a year. Among them, the number of militancy related news is 377 which is far fewer compared to other news. Here only 0.23% of the news is regarding militancy. Out of five dailies, The Daily Janakantha publishes the highest news regarding this issue. On the other hand, the Daily Star has the lowest coverage. Daily Prothom Alo, Daily Ittefaq and Daily Kalerkantho secure second, third and fourth position respectively among the five dailies on publishing militancy news in a year. Here most of the news is one-columned. Again, almost one-third of the news is without photos. Besides, the highest numbers of news are published in the inner pages. Here November has the highest coverage and August has the lowest. The study also explores that most of the militancy-related stories are presented fairly, systematically, and well-balanced. The study recommends that the daily newspapers of Bangladesh should increase the publication of militancy news in a constructive manner with more sincerity.

Legalizing executive control: on the law of online journalism in India

ABSTRACT This article critiques the Information Technology (Intermediaries Guidelines and Digital Media Ethics Code) Rules 2021 (“the Rules”) as they relate to online journalism. The Government’s stated objective for making the Rules is to “level the playing field” of online journalism with print journalism. I examine whether and how the Government satisfies this objective. I make two broad claims. First, the Rules fail to “level the playing field”. The objectives, philosophical approach, and substance of the new regulatory scheme are significantly different from those that govern print journalism, and to the disadvantage of online journalism. Second, rather than “levelling the playing field”, the Rules give the Government overwhelming control of online journalism. The Government exercises ultimate control over the regulatory structures and gives itself unprecedented censorship powers over online journalism. If my claims are correct, the Rules will have catastrophic consequences for online journalism and Indian democracy.

Cases and Issues in Photo Editing and Obscene Pictures in News Publications

Cases and Issues in Photo Editing and Obscene Pictures in News Publications

Differences between News Ethics and Public Ethics in Public Crisis Communication A Case Study of the 'Hebei Typhoon' Public Opinion Incident

In recent years, the gradual increase in public emergencies has had a significant impact on society. Against this backdrop, news media, as the "fourth estate" and disseminators of information, play a crucial role in public life. However, the question of how to adhere to journalistic ethics in reporting while also reflecting public ethics in dissemination remains unresolved. On one hand, news media are required to adhere to professional ethical norms in their reporting, including principles such as truthfulness, objectivity, and non-misleading practices. On the other hand, public ethics emphasize that media should prioritize social responsibility and public moral consciousness in their communication efforts, with the goal of safeguarding the interests of the public. Therefore, in the context of public crisis communication, news media must comprehensively consider the factors of journalistic ethics and public ethics. They must ensure the preservation of news value and the portrayal of factual truths while also paying attention to guiding public emotions and fostering positive impacts on society.

Fake News in an Early Hebrew Newspaper: Sensationalist Journalism in HaTzfira in 1874

ABSTRACT The history of fake news is longer and more nuanced than usually considered. This article examines a particular case study in the late nineteenth century, in which the publication of fake news in a Hebrew journal, HaTzfira, caused a severe reaction that exposed structural flaws and undercurrents of journalistic confrontation as well as differing approaches toward the role of truth within the profession. By exploring earlier manifestations of fake news, historians gain a new perspective on its causes and also the strategies for fighting it.

НАЦИОНАЛЬНЫЕ МОДЕЛИ ЖУРНАЛИСТИКИ В УСЛОВИЯХ ГЛОБАЛИЗАЦИОННЫХ ПРОЦЕССОВ

The article presents an analytical review of studies devoted to the study of national models of journalism, the conceptualization of the national experience of journalism in the context of globalization. The author of the article notes the impact of globalization processes, new technologies and mass media commercialization on the global media space. At the same time, the emphasis is on an indigenized approach to studying the media, the essence of which is the conceptualization of the national experience of journalism and the analysis of the activities of media systems in a specific historical context. The theoretical material of the study consists of English-language and Russian-language scientific articles and studies devoted to the study of national models of journalism in different countries. To study the specifics of national Belarusian journalism in the context of an indigenized approach, the data obtained during the research project (2012–2014) were used as an empirical base. The material of the study was 17 interviews with editors and journalists, who were in 1991–1996 founders / creators of new Belarusian periodicals and / or initiators of innovative changes in the information space of the Republic of Belarus. An analysis of the opinions of the interviewed journalists makes it possible to identify such conceptual dominants that characterize the Belarusian print journalism of those years as “freedom”, “influence”, “competition”, which to a certain extent reproduce the normative canon of journalism. The material of the article confirms that the post-Soviet period is of particular interest for research in the context of an indigenized approach to studying national media models. It was then that journalism in the post-Soviet space experienced institutional transformations, mastered new topics and tools of work, integrated into its practice the ideas and principles of journalism borrowed from Western practice.

Artificial intelligence and new business models in agriculture: the “ZERO” case study

PurposeThis study aims to investigate the use of Artificial Intelligence (AI) applied to vertical farms to evaluate whether disrupting technology supports sustainability and increases strategic business model choices in the agricultural sector. The study responds through empirical analysis to the gap on the subject of AI-driven business models present in the growing sector literature.Design/methodology/approachThe paper analyzes the case of “ZERO”, a company linked to the strategy innovation ecosystem of the Ca’ Foscari University of Venice, Italy. The empirical data were collected through a semi-structured questionnaire, interviews and the analysis of public news on the business model available in the analyzed case study. The research is empirical and uses exploratory, descriptive analysis to interpret the findings. The article focuses on the evaluation of AI impact on the agricultural sector and its potential to create new business models.FindingsThe study identified how AI can support the decision-making process leading to an increase in productivity, efficiency, product quality and cost reduction. AI helps increase these parameters through a continuous learning process and local production, and the possible decrease in prices directed toward the goal of zero km food with fresh products. AI is a winning technology to support the key elements of the vertical farm business model. However, it must be coupled with other devices, such as robots, sensors and drones, to collect enough data to enable continuous learning and improvement.Research limitations/implicationsThe research supports new research trends in AI applied to agriculture. The major implication is the construction of ecosystems between farms, technology providers, policymakers, universities, research centers and local consumer communities.Practical implicationsThe ZERO case study underlines the potential of AI as a destructive technology that, especially in vertical farms, eliminates external conditions by increasing productivity, reducing costs and responding to production needs with adequate consumption of raw materials, boosting both environmental and social sustainability.Originality/valueThe study is original, as the current literature presents few empirical case studies on AI-supporting business models in agriculture. The study also favors valuable strategic implications for the policies to be adopted in favor of new business models in agriculture.

SOCIOLOGICAL STUDY OF POLITICAL IMAGE: INDICATORS AND MEDIA PORTRAIT

In the article, the authors consider the image of such a political figure as Vladimir Wolfovich Zhirinovsky. It is proved that sociological research contributes to a more successful formation of the image of a politician. The article substantiates and explores the image indicators of a charismatic politician by analyzing scientific works devoted to the image of this personality, by monitoring a number of news publications with mention of V.V. Zhirinovsky, which allows us to determine the content of publications through the following types of connotations - positive, neutral and negative. The article creates a certain media portrait, concludes about the effectiveness of techniques for creating a positive image and the possibility of using these technologies for other political figures.

Autonomies and Dependencies: Shifting Configurations of Power in the Platformization of News

In this introduction, we draw together the articles in the special issue on the platformization of news, highlighting that the articles contribute by answering two central questions. First, what is the extent of contemporary journalists and news organizations’ platform dependence, and how does this vary according to geographic context, organizational resources, and other factors? Second, what is the nature of journalism’s platform dependency? Platforms’ most overt editorial influence on news publishers (e.g., dictating areas of coverage, reshaping headlines, and so on) has arguably waned in recent years – and was never straightforward to begin with. The articles in this special issue encourage us to consider how the platform/publisher relationship is now defined by more subtle, or even hidden, dependencies that are nevertheless impactful. We further argue that various forms of power are at play in the shifting, contextual and embedded configurations of dependency and autonomy in the platform/publisher relationship. The forms of power, which we can observe across the articles, and which matter for dependence/autonomy configurations, are infrastructural, cultural, and geopolitical.

Usage of Medical Library Resources: A Study in the Regional Institute of Medical Sciences, Imphal

This paper aims to analyse the usage of library resources, both physical and electronic, in the Central Library of the Regional Institute of Medical Sciences, Imphal. The study was designed to assess the usage of library resources in the Central Library of the Regional Institute of Medical Sciences, Imphal. The library visitor registry was surveyed for statistics. The research is limited to the usage of library resources at the RIMS’ central library during the 2016–2021 academic session. The Library has 645 members registered during the last five academic sessions. The library has a record of 13738 women and 12435 men, totalling a total of 2,6173 users who visited the library during the last 2016-2021 academic years. The highest number of visitors (1179) was recorded in September during the 2019-20 academic year, followed by (1139) in September during the 2018-19 academic year, (1127) in October, (1115) in May during the academic year 2018-19 respectively. A total of 280 users visited the print journals section of the library during the academic year 2016-17, 342 during 2017-18, 356 during 2018-19, 365 during 2019-20 and 109 during 2020-21 respectively. The library has the highest number of visitors (906) who use E-resources recorded in September followed by(827) in October during the academic year 2019-20. The least number of visitors (106) were recorded in January during the 2020-21 academic session. Further, it is found that the highest number of users (6270) visited the library during 2018-19, and only (818) during 2020-21.

The Images of China in TIME: A Corpus-Based Critical Discourse Analysis

With the help of corpus statistics, this article compares the China-related covers and reports of TIME over its 100 years of existence and divides them into four periods. As a real-time political news publication, TIME has the characteristic of closely matching the development of the times. In different historical periods, China’s image, China-related cover characters and headlines, and the content of China-related reports vary greatly. The image and report on wartime China are more objective and positive, with a more positive tone. In the Redified China phase, the China-related reports were mainly negative, trying to create a chaotic and bloody image of Communist China for Western readers. In the reforming or Changing phase of China, the coverage shifted from the negative terms to a neutral and objective one, unfolding China’s change and development to the Western world. While in the diversified development phase of China, China-related cover stories and terms on TIME were more objective. The characters and images that TIME tries to highlight were also inconsistent in different historical periods, indicating that the shaping of TIME’s China cover image is deeply influenced by the ideology, news values, culture, and worldview differences of the reporters.

Sustainability and Environmental Communities of Practice’s Impact on News Content Diversity

ABSTRACT Communities of practice (CoP) are distinct community groups that share a common interest in which they interact with one another to address problems and reach goals. In the present study, we investigated one niche community—sustainability and environmental communities of practice—to determine whether stronger communities of practices differed from weaker ones. We developed a summative index rating each sampled university student news publication with a single score ranging from 0–3 to represent community of practice strength: (a) universities with a sustainability ranking, (b) student publications with an environmental specialization, (c) universities with an environmental journalism specialization, and (d) no CoP to determine whether university students situated in stronger communities practiced journalism differently. Data from a content analysis of sustainability and environmental news articles showed the strongest sustainability community of practice was related to more topic diversity, but source affiliation diversity levels appear to continue to remain mostly constant across contexts and time. Implications concerning environmental journalism training and university outreach are discussed.

“CNN Can Kiss My As$”

News consumption in the United States is polarized and fragmented, with an abundance of partisan news publications appealing to political identities on both the left and the right. Yet, there is an abundance of hyperpartisan news on the right, the content of which has been shown to be harmful to democracy. This study captures one of the most comprehensive pictures to date of the U.S. Americans who consume far-right media and makes connections between such media use and the state of American democracy. After a lengthy data-cleaning process, we analyzed open-ended survey responses from a nationally representative sample of more than 10,000 U.S. American adults, finding that nearly ten percent self-report at least one far-right news outlet as a primary news source. Furthermore, significantly more U.S. Americans report consuming far-right and moderate-right news outlets than counterparts on the left. We then examined the characteristics of this small but significant group, given the current political climate in the United States, finding that far-right news consumers are overwhelmingly white, male, Republican, Christian, and without a college degree. This study reinforces previous findings that patterns in hyperpartisan media usage demonstrate growing extremism in the U.S., and that it is deeply rooted in identity.